Regional Climate Collaboratives Annual Report Year 2: 2030 Resilient Networks Collaborative
Overview
Award Amount: $799,994
Communities Served: Los Angeles County
Partners
"Achieving true climate resilience requires honoring and collaborating with Tribal Nations, who are leaders in stewardship and keepers of knowledge that have sustained these lands and waters since time immemorial. Council for Watershed Health is proud to stand alongside the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians as our long-term partner and as part of the 2030 Resilient Networks Collaborative to address our shared climate challenges. Together, we elevate Tribal leadership, integrating traditional knowledge and scientific expertise to strengthen stewardship and deepen Tribal sovereignty in practice. "
About the Collaborative
The 2030 Resilient Networks Collaborative is a Tribal-led collective that aims to increase resiliency among Tribal communities in the three valleys of the Fernandeño Tribe, otherwise known as Los Angeles County. During the grant term, the collaborative will support its region with a framework for a climate adaptation technical assistance (TA) program. This framework will identify the types of technical assistance needed by Tribes, Tribal-serving partners, and communities in the region. The collaborative will match these partners with TA providers who can help them access funding to support the region as a whole and improve the well-being of Tribal citizens. This toolkit aims to facilitate equitable access to TA that can address the region’s most urgent climate needs and equity gaps and harness opportunities in the region.
Activities Conducted in Year 2
This year, the collaborative created and distributed a comprehensive survey to its networks, including Tribal partners, community-based organizations (CBOs), local governments, TA providers, and recipients. The survey touched on identifying the most effective ways to receive TA such as online tools, educational training, peer-learning, facilitated dialogue, and more. The results from the survey are currently being analyzed to inform the regional TA toolkit.
The collaborative’s goal is to put forth a Tribal TA Toolkit that will compile climate-related funding opportunities and best practices to pursue funding. The toolkit will also include climate data that users can incorporate into their work to understand climate change risks and anticipate impacts in their communities. Furthermore, this toolkit will span many topics including grant funding, data and research, legal support, planning and development, and project implementation.
In addition to the toolkit, collaborative members from the Fernandeño Tataviam Band worked with California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) during the 2025 Los Angeles County fires to advance wildfire mitigation efforts and develop better TA practices. This experience helped the Tribe build a strong working relationship with Cal OES that will serve the region in ensuring Tribal engagement in future climate mitigation and fire resiliency efforts.
Outcomes
- Awarded a $1 million grant award for the Los Angeles County High Road Training Program to implement a worker-informed, employer-aligned training model and receive TA from the UCLA Labor Center.
- Received $12 million award from the California Tribal Homekey Program to construct 26 affordable senior housing units.
- Reached out to 125 Tribes and other local partners to gather information about TA needs in the region.
- Awarded a $521,000 planning grant from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)’s Tribal Wildfire Resilience Program to support the long-term restoration and climate adaptation goal of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band through hands-on learning and intergenerational knowledge transfer.
- Received a $200,000 award from the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation (LCI)’s Tribal Research Grant Program to support Tribal-led climate data integration, regional climate analysis and Indigenous Knowledge inclusion in state-level climate research.
What’s Next
The 2030 Resilient Networks Collaborative applied for several federal grant opportunities in Year 2 of the program but were unfortunately impacted by the federal funding cuts and policy changes this year. Instead, the collaborative will shift its efforts to identifying Proposition 4 funding opportunities and aligning them with the TA information and opportunities outlined in the launch of its toolkit later this fall.